On This Day...

• Marble Bar in WA experienced temps of over 37.8 degrees Celsius for 161 consecutive days in 1923.
• Orson Welles' radio version of War of the Worlds aired in 1938.
• Abbot & Costello's first film 'One Night in the Tropics' premiered in America in 1940.
• Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton began co-hosting together for the first time on The Movie Show on SBS in 1986.
• Wicked, the stage musical written by Stephen Schwartz, opened on Broadway in 2003.
• Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm LTD and its frights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion in 2012.
• And Bert Newton, the Australian TV and radio presenter, died aged 83 in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl3wPw6xf_0Source: YouTube/WickedTheMusicalUK